Peanuts become a real problem when the country throwing them is a totalitarian dictatorship, and spying becomes tolerable when the country doing it is a democracy.
How many people are forgetting those basics will never cease to surprise me.
How many people are forgetting those basics will never cease to surprise me.
So, effectively, it seems like US voters have the same amount of influence on their intelligence services' spying, both domestic and international, than citizens of China do.
Long story short, "spying becomes tolerable when the country doing it is a democracy" is definitely not something I agree with, at least not in the democractic setups we see in the west (and that includes Europe, to be clear).